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November 15, 2017

1880s - 1930s Unidentified Persons in Photographs of Photographs found in the Simmons Studio Collection

Simmons Studio was located on the top floor at 209 N. Holden during the 1940s and early 1950s. Some customers brought old pictures to be rephotographed.

When the business closed, the owner left negatives of these old pictures behind. Most of them are unidentified.

Seventy years after they were abandoned, the building’s current owner, Ben Pierce, found the negatives and donated them to the Historical Society. We have begun the process of turning these negatives into positives and publishing them online.

Blind Boone - Warrensburg

UCM Video Link - Warrensburg MO

Muleskinner - Digitalburg Online News

The Daily Star-Journal

Whiteman Air Force Base

Home of the B2 Stealth Bomber, Click on the picture

University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg

Education for Service, Click Here

UCM Athletics

Click for Mules and Jennies Sports

Johnson County Courthouse

History of Johnson County Johnson County was established on December 13, 1834, when it separated from Lafayette County. Johnson County, named for R.M. Johnson, a Kentucky senator and later vice president, which as of 2006 has an estimated population of 50,646. There are seven municipalities located in Johnson County: Centerview, Chilhowee, Holden, Kingsville, Knob Noster, Latour, Leeton and Warrensburg, which is the county seat. Communities that no longer qualify as incorporated towns, but are still recognized on our county maps include: Burtville, Columbus, Cornelia, Dunksburg, Elm, Ernestville, Fayetteville, Magnolia, Medford, Montserrat, Owsley, Pittsville, Post Oak, Rose Hill, Slab Town and Sutherland. Johnson County’s most famous resident is not a man or a woman, but a dog named Old Drum, who was wrongly accused as a sheep-killer by his owner’s neighbor and was shot and killed. If Charles Burden had not loved his favorite hunting dog as he did, the unusual trial of Burden vs. Hornsby would never have occurred and George Graham Vest would never have had the opportunity to make his classic eulogy to all dogs. A statue of the infamous hound, along with the moving speech, stands immortalized on the Courthouse Square. To this day, over one hundred years after the fact, the statue and the story behind it still bring visitors from across the country. Johnson County is also home to University of Central Missouri and Whiteman Air Force Base - home of the Stealth Bomber. Johnson County is approximately fifty miles east of Kansas City and is rapidly growing as commuters move farther from the city. Genealogical research brings many visitors to Johnson County each year. The County Clerk’s office has birth and death records from 1883 to 1893. The Recorder of Deeds has land records and marriage records from 1835 to the present. Wills and probate records are located in the Circuit Court, Probate Division. Trails Regional Library, located in Warrensburg, houses the West Central Genealogical Society and Library. The Johnson County Historical Society, also located in Warrensburg, has numerous resources.

College/University High School Class of 1973The following classmates are no longer with us and they attended College/University High School in Warrensburg. We honor them by the good memories we have of each of them. They are Jack Barrows, Jerry Bowling, Tom Byrns, Christiane Elwell, Carol Newland, Don Rice, Jerry Stockton, Lindsey Whiteside.